Security Engineer, SeatGeek
New Grad
$110-130k
+ Equity stake
3+ days a week in office
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$110-130k
+ Equity stake
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power a new, open entertainment industry where fans have effortless access to experiences, and team, venues, and shows have seamless access to their audiences.
Role
Who you are
- You’re graduating in Spring 2025
- Proficiency in two or more programming languages (Python, C#, Go) i.e you can code and perform code reviews
- Ability to think like an attacker when playing defense, using that mindset to further drive meaningful improvements for detection & response
- Experience contributing to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)
- (Preferred) Regularly participate in CTF, bug bounty hunting, and hackathons (bonus points if you share your Bugcrowd/HackerOne/Devpost profiles)
What the job involves
- SeatGeek is looking for a security engineering professional to join our Security organization
- As a Security Engineer, you’ll be involved in a mix of incident response, cloud security, security engineering, threat and bug hunting, and red teaming
- You'll be part of an engineering team developing a modern security program with a strong focus on automation, coupled with a collaborative approach to working with our engineering partners
- You’ll be operating in a fast paced, agile environment, with a goal of making security built-in by default
- As a member of our team, you will influence the security roadmap: maturing our threat detection and incident response and cloud security programs
- Engineer, implement, and enhance existing security controls to harden and increase visibility in our AWS environment
- Develop, scale, and maintain security tooling with a heavy emphasis on automation (we use Python!)
- Hold an active role in our incident response & on-call programs by identifying vulnerabilities, tuning signals, and creating new detections for critical systems
- Partner with teams from both our engineering and non-engineering orgs to influence security awareness and security best practices
- Participate in red team / blue team exercises
Our take
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$78.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $419.9m
Company benefits
- Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
- Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
- Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
- Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
- Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
- Flexible work environment: Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely. A WFH stipend to support your home office setup.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jack is also a Founding Partner at Founder Creative. Previously, he founded Scribnia and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Previously, Russell co-founded Scribnia and worked as an Analyst at Monitor Group.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Eric previously co-founded Niqos where he worked as a Web Developer for 3 years. He also served as a Web Developer at Tickerhound and as a User Experience Engineer at Amie Street.
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